Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:23:51AM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: >> It's been years since I was in the UK. I can't remember what the modern >> dial tone sounds like. When did it change? > > The first version of it appeared in parts of Sutton Coldfield in 1976, > but some places still had the old tone into the 1990s. The modern one is > of a slightly higher pitch than the 1976 version. Much of Europe uses a > similar tone. The "secondary" dial tone in France (that followed use of > 19 when that was the International prefix) was quite similar too.
The German dialtone is a single frequency with no beat, which would sound very different from the aforementioned tone only with a higher pitch... -Stephen- _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
